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Ms. Keim from Chicago, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Black History Is Our History

Help me give my students books about Black History, like Henry's Freedom Box, Freedom on the Menu, and Rosa.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Keim's classroom raised $699

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My Project

My students are bubbly, vibrant, and engaged. They want to learn everything there is to know about the world, and never run out of questions. They are enthusiastic readers, and use reading as a portal to learn.

These books from Social Justice Books' list of Black History books will help my students learn about important events in American History- from the Tulsa Race Riots to the Green Book to the Marches in Selma and beyond.

By learning about these key events in American history and learning about the brave men and women who look just like them and took part in these events, my students can begin to see themselves in the past, present, and future of our country.

Ms. Keim Alain Locke Charter Academy Grades 3-5

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride in New York • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
The Unstoppable Garrett Morgan • Amazon Business $19.95 1 $19.95
Remember: The Journey to School Integration (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards)) • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Ruth and the Green Book • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days • Amazon Business $18.95 1 $18.95
Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School • Amazon Business $18.95 1 $18.95
Going Places: Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Book • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Birmingham, 1963 • Amazon Business $17.95 1 $17.95
The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just • Amazon Business $17.66 1 $17.66
Ellington Was Not a Street • Amazon Business $16.69 1 $16.69
Blues Journey (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards)) • Amazon Business $16.52 1 $16.52
Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane • Amazon Business $16.16 1 $16.16
Evicted!: The Struggle for the Right to Vote • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues & the Story of African-American Baseball • Amazon Business $15.95 1 $15.95
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre • Amazon Business $15.79 1 $15.79
Mumbet's Declaration of Independence • Amazon Business $15.28 1 $15.28
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore • Amazon Business $15.04 1 $15.04
The Women Who Caught The Babies: A Story of African American Midwives • Amazon Business $14.49 1 $14.49
Biddy Mason Speaks Up (Fighting for Justice, 2) • Amazon Business $13.89 1 $13.89
Call Me Miss Hamilton: One Woman's Case for Equality and Respect • Amazon Business $13.39 1 $13.39
A Day for Rememberin': Inspired by the True Events of the First Memorial Day • Amazon Business $13.30 1 $13.30
Up From The Ashes • Amazon Business $12.95 1 $12.95
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement • Amazon Business $10.59 1 $10.59
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books) • Amazon Business $10.29 1 $10.29
Richard Wright and the Library Card • Amazon Business $10.29 1 $10.29
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad • Amazon Business $10.04 1 $10.04
The Road to Memphis (Logan Family Saga) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Clemente! • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Story of Civil War Hero Robert Smalls • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (Illustrated Biographies by Chronicle Books) • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49
BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Rosa • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
A Sweet Smell of Roses • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Thunder Rose • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Bayou Magic • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Under the Freedom Tree • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Granddaddy's Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Zora and Me • Amazon Business $7.89 1 $7.89
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Finding Langston (The Finding Langston Trilogy) • Amazon Business $5.19 1 $5.19
Dayshaun's Gift (City Kids) • Amazon Business $5.16 1 $5.16

Materials cost

$555.62

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.33

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$593.95

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$104.81

Total project goal

$698.76

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $698.76

9 Donors

-$524.62

Donations toward project cost

-$445.94

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$78.68

Matching donations from our partners

-$174.14

Match offers toward project cost

-$148.02

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$26.12

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